The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Teaching as a profession is one of the most challenging tasks that a person can ever take up. Ensuring decorum in the class, as well as picking the right approach to impart knowledge to students is a tricky job. The best way to teach is to praise the positive actions and ignore the negative ones. I disagree with this statement on the grounds that, a child cannot thoroughly know what is wrong until he or she is informed about it. The reasoning behind my position will be explained in brief in the paragraphs below.
Science as a domain has always shed light upon positive actions that have led to significant discoveries which have changed the way people think. The way science is taught in educational institutions is by praising the methods and actions that the inventors have undertaken to come up with a discovery. Therefore, it instills a false thought in the minds of students that positive actions will only lead to notable discoveries. This is not the case, great personalities like Galileo Galilee had to refute the widely held notion that Earth was at the center of the universe, such opposition paved the way for his later theory that proved that the Sun was at the center of the universe and not Earth. This clearly indicates that science is primarily based upon questioning widely held beliefs, even if it is considered a negative action, because such an opposition tends to pave the way for a magnanimous discovery.
Moreover, if a student wants to practice law as a profession, it is practically not viable to praise or throw light upon the positive aspects of law. For example, if law as a subject explains only about the positive reasons for the convict to commit such a crime, every individual would be exonerated and this is not why law and order has come into existence. The main structure of law and order is based upon finding possible fallacies and negative reasoning behind committing a crime. A lawyer who is taught to reason out positive instances behind a crime would fail to comprehend a possible heinous crime. Therefore, as far as law is concerned, praising positive actions would not help in the overall development of a law practitioner.
Proponents of the above claim would state that negative actions may instigate a child to perform illegal actions that can lead to an increase in child delinquency. I agree with such a claim but that statement is too aggressive to state that negative actions should be ignored entirely. As a middle ground, it would be ideal if the negative actions are mentioned to students and the ramifications of such actions be informed so that they do not indulge in such malpractices. Negative actions can form the base to teach students, the merits of inculcating positive actions.
In sum, I am still against the statement that the best way to teach is to praise the positive actions and ignore the negative ones. Such a course of action in my opinion inhibits the overall development of a child. Positive and negative actions are two sides of the same coin and hence, keeping students informed of both the sides help them better reason out situations that they may encounter in the future.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, if, may, moreover, so, still, therefore, well, for example, in brief, as well as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2624.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 544.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82352941176 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82947280553 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71669037146 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 254.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.466911764706 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 840.6 704.065955056 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.9314604873 60.3974514979 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.272727273 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7272727273 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.86363636364 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296452062089 0.243740707755 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0987915133488 0.0831039109588 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0767792196067 0.0758088955206 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174465286898 0.150359130593 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0446254045103 0.0667264976115 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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